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Archive | April, 2011
Report: Al-Qaeda Targeted Brooklyn Bridge
The New York Times reports that the Brooklyn Bridge was on Al-Qaeda’s hitlist before the September 11, 2001 attack on the World Trade Center. According to newly released documents, the terror group planned to cut the bridge’s suspension cables to bring it tumbling down into the East River:
84th Precinct Police Blotter – 4/27/11
Bags, birth control and diamond rings are stolen. It’s this week’s police blotter.
Brooklyn Heights Resident Laszlo Jakab Orsos Profiled in New York Times
The New York Times profiles PEN World Voices Festival director Laszlo Jakab Orsos via its Asked and Answered feature: NYT: One of the least pretentious people circulating in the literary world, Orsos is determined to show, with this festival, that literature is an everyday occurrence. (Guests at the Standard this week, for example, will find […]
Montague Street Bagel Shop Not Taking Down Anti-Smoking Poster… Yet
The Wall Street Journal writes about vendors still displaying NYC’s graphic anti-smoking posters even-though a federal court says the city does not have the right to force stores selling cigarettes to display them. One shop in question is “a bagel shop” on Montague Street: WSJ: A woman who identified herself as the owner of a […]
Grace Church School Carnival This Saturday
Grace Church School, 234 Hicks Street (between Grace Court and Joralemon) will have its annual Carnival fundraiser this Saturday, April 30, from 11:00 a.m. until 3:00 p.m. Admission is $25 for each child, but free for adults accompanied by children. Admission includes games, activities and food, featuring Steve’s Craft Ice Cream, organic hot dogs, cotton […]
Metropolitan Opera to Present Recital in Brooklyn Bridge Park
The Metropolitan Opera will present a free recital at Pier 1, Brooklyn Bridge Park, on Wednesday, July 17, beginning at 7:00 p.m. and lasting for approximately ninety minutes. Performers at this recital will be Angela Meade, soprano; Dmitri Pittas, tenor; Jennifer Johnson Cano; mezzo-soprano; and Bradley Moore, pianist. The program for this recital will be […]
Royal Wedding Festivities in Our Area
Unless you’re of the same mind as Mark Oppenheimer in Slate, you may be looking forward to Friday’s royal nuptials. If you’re enough of a hard-core Anglophile or insomniac, you can hie yourself to The Archway, where Water Street crosses under the Manhattan Bridge in DUMBO, at 5:30 a.m. for a free giant screening of […]
Squibb Park Pedestrian Bridge to be Made of Wood
The pedestrian bridge connecting Squibb Park, at the foot of Columbia Heights, to Brooklyn Bridge Park, expected to be completed by summer of 2012, will have an innovative design by MacArthur Genius Award winning engineer Ted Zoli, using timber as the principal material. Popular Mechanics: Supported by poured-concrete pillars and suspended by steel cables, the […]
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